posted at 1:01 pm on October 30, 2012 by Ed Morrissey

Today on The Ed Morrissey Show (3 pm ET), my friend Andrew Malcolm joins us as always on today’s TEMS at 3 pm ET! The Prince of Twitter and I will discuss the election, Hurricane Sandy, and all of the hot political stories of the day. The last twenty minutes will be our Lightning Round, where our Chatizens ask the questions and we provide the pithy answers, so be sure to register for your free Ustream account today to participate!

In bonus minutes, I am pleased to welcome Dennis Prager, my Salem colleague and one of my favorite talk-radio hosts! Dennis will discuss the latest video from Prager University, a must-read website in which Dennis and other notable thinkers provide in-depth philosophical and political analysis. Today, Dennis talks about why we need the death penalty, which I personally oppose — so be sure to tune in to watch Dennis school me on both this topic and talk-show hosting.

Debating Dennis is like having to follow Herman Cain on stage … or Dennis himself. I’ve done both and enjoyed it, but was under no illusions about how it turned out.

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The Obama Administrations negotiating over the release of the Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman and the pressure brought by Egypt and Islamist terrorist groups for his release is one good argument for the death penalty. If the juries and the courts take it out of the hands of the politicians then they don’t have an opportunity to betray us for political or economic reasons. Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, the Lockerbie Bomber, is another example.

Given that government is inherently force and coercion, and given that the system isn’t perfect … the death penalty is immoral. Granted, even if the system were perfect and no innocent people were put to death or could potentially be put to death, it would still be immoral.

Besides, government isn’t a victim of capital crimes; people are. Government should have no say in administering punishment for crimes of which it is not victim.

So we should allow Jeffery Dahmer, Ailene Wuornos, John Gacy, and Ted Bundy to breathe. . .air? At society’s expense?

I think pedophiles and serial rapists should be executed.

Kind of funny how progressives and liberals find compassion for the worst villains and monsters on the planet, yet will toss a infant on a stainless steel table to freeze to death without guilt or remorse.

Just in case those bacon twins make a run at it. Oh, and Dante. Have you an answer to my question yet? Its coming up on a year, should have been plenty of time. Say isn’t ricv404 at the bottom of the commenter barrel, or do I have it confused with someone else?

So we should allow Jeffery Dahmer, Ailene Wuornos, John Gacy, and Ted Bundy to breathe. . .air? At society’s expense?

I think pedophiles and serial rapists should be executed.

Kind of funny how progressives and liberals find compassion for the worst villains and monsters on the planet, yet will toss a infant on a stainless steel table to freeze to death without guilt or remorse.